Didn't Mick Hennessy/Froch ask for too much money from ITV & Sky for the Taylor fight (i think) and they turned him down, leaving Prime Time showing it? Since then Sky and ITV have refused to deal with him.

Yeah Mick said Froch was done with ITV because they wouldnt give him enough money, i think he also said something about Froch being to big for ITV. Most of Froch's lack of fame is because of bad management by Hennessy.

Yeah Mick said Froch was done with ITV because they wouldnt give him enough money, i think he also said something about Froch being to big for ITV. Most of Froch's lack of fame is because of bad management by Hennessy.

Froch really needs to dump Hennessy after the super six over, its actually pretty shocking the limited exposure he had considering the run hes is on, compared someone like Haye, even Audley makes more column inches.

Thats crap, Froch wanted to fight Calzaghe but had no profile in the media and still really doesn't, so what do you do?

He did what any boxer does and that's mouth off to anyone that's willing listen and hopefully they print it in a newspaper or on a boxing forum like here.

I don't know anyone that's pissed at him for calling out Calzaghe or for having a little spat at Khan, he was trying to get some media attention that's all.

Nor me.

That's only something for the little JC Stanboys who all came to this forum after November 2007. Joe Public really could give two f*cks.

You're exactly right.

I mean, Calzaghe's status as a publically beloved British sporting great is still in large part a media-shuck, anyway. Outside of possibly Wales, all the gushing acclaim he's received for a 'great career' came only with his last few fights; people seem to forget that Joe was a perennial brooding outsider to the big-time circus, unable to really capture public imagination, even with the backing of Sky, until first Lacy then Kessler came along in the last 2 years of his career. Then came the hypocritical 'arise, Sir Joe, plaudits' from the establishment and its media, as if everybody had been paying attention all along, which generates a wave of wider public notice and interest for a short time. Now all that's cooled, Joe isn't really that deeply embedded in the public's affections, even after all.
Remembered in years to come as one of Britain's biggest fistic achievers by its sports presses and broadcasters? Sure. But a figure that really resonates deeply with any side of the everyday British consciousness? Nah. The bland Calzaghe is still viewed with a lot of indifference. Benn (raw naked emotion on display in everything he did), Eubank (whose arrogance beguiled the public even as he repulsed it, forcing it to first turn away from the mirror in self-disgust before finally embracing its reflection) and Bruno all still cast longer shadows in that regard.

I digress. But, point is; I agree, the whole 'Froch isn't popular in the UK because he dissed Calzaghe' argument is completely baseless.